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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Therapeutic State
- Law Liberty and Psychiatry
- Szasz Quotationary
- Karl Kraus and the Soul-Doctors
- Ethics of Psychoanalysis
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- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 65
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 163,087x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,559x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 59,701x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 50,977x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,298x
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Quotes
- “In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.”
- “Religious and medical propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding, I hold some simple truths to be self-evident. One of these truths is that just as the dead do not rise from the grave, so drugs do not commit crimes. The dead remain dead. Drugs are inert chemicals that have no effect on human beings who choose not to use them. No one has to smoke cigarettes, and no one has to shoot heroin. People smoke cigarettes because they want to, and they shoot heroin because they want to.”
- “What had been drapetomania became depression. ... Modern man runs away from a life that seems to him a kind of slavery.”
- “In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”
- “Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
- “Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Szász Tamás István , ( 1920-04-15 ) April 15, 1920, Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary
- Died
- September 8, 2012 (2012-09-08) (aged 92), Manlius, New York , U.S.
- Citizenship
- Hungary, United States
- Alma mater
- University of Cincinnati
- Known for
- Criticism of psychiatry
- Spouse
- Rosine Loshkajian ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; died 1971 )
- Fields
- Psychiatry
- Institutions
- State University of New York Upstate Medical University
- Website
- szasz .com
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Official website
The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
The purpose of this site is to advance the debate about Thomas S. Szasz's basic ideas and their practical applications.
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Encyclopedic overview
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Thomas Stephen Szasz (/sɑːs/ SAHSS; Hungarian: Szász Tamás István [saːs]; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism.
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